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TRADE UNION LEADERSAGREE WITH HITLER-Page 2

Political and Economic Democracy

The BritishAss.

A Sad StoryPage 5

When Is a NuisanceNot a Nuisance?

When It's a MaggotPageSOFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SOCIAL CREDIT SECRETARIAT LIMITED

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1937

A DRASTIC change in the Mexican financial situation is brought about by a decreein the Official Gazette, says a Reuter message, under which the Banco de

Mexico becomes the sole bank of emission and is charged with the regulation of theexchange.

The step caused a sensation in financial circles, as, in the absence of explanatorypreamble, it appeared virtually to invest the director of the bank with dictatorialpowers. "

The money power quietly goes on with its establishment of all-powerful Centralbanks in every country in the world.

Only in Alberta is its progress yet directly challenged.

MutteringsAgainstAlbertaI Dark Threats Which Appear

In The Controlled Press

Why DoPeople Kill

Themselves?Page 2

TotalitariansCan't Go

Bankrupt!Page 2

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THE press in this country, or, to be more precise, in London, is mostindignant that the Government of Alberta, elected with an over-

whelming majority, should actually attempt to carry out its mandate.That IS not the way things are done, as Mr. Baldwin obligingly explained not long

since, and so the most drastic measures are now being advocated. "Put 'em up againsta wall and shoot 'em" is the watchword.

The Morning Post in a long article on September I I by its Calgary (not itsEdmonton) correspondent, foresees "the. most serious clash between Dominion andProvincial authority that Canada has yet seen."

The Alberta Government, it remarks, has no police force of its own and no soldiers;and adds that although the Canadian Mounted Police act under the orders 'of the Pro-vincial Attorney-General, nevertheless it is a Dominion body subject to final orders fromOttawa."If, therefore," it concludes, "the Dominion 1-------------------

Government decides to give its protection tothe banks and for this purpose sends ordersto the Mounted Police, these orders wouldhave to be obeyed. The Alberta Attorney-General would then have to decide whetherthe enforcement of the bank laws is to remaina dead letter, or whether he is to try to over-come the resistance of the Mounted Policewith some sort of improvised force of hisown.

"In coming to .this decision he will haveto realise that the Dominion Government haat its disposal such regular military forces asexist in Canada: and a~~o,.the militia-for I RA I LWAY fares will cost morewhat that body. IS worth. '. fter October 1 that is to say I

The Economist, September 4. would like i , ,a '.compromise from Mr. Aberhart, but itself I thp.~ we shall have ~o part WIth mo~e ,would give no quarter: "Mr. Aberhart has ordinary money tickets to obtain .rejected all .counsels of compr<;>misein 'his special railway travel tickets .. , , '- •struggle agalI~st orthodox banking and cur- , So the railway companies are now 'engagedrency conceptIons ... The removal of a duly upon the task of printing millions of freshelected Provincial Government is an tickets.unheard-of step; but if Mr. Aberhart:s p~ans In their first stage, railway tickets arrive at'--------------------1 are a.llowed to .com_e even temp~ranly into the factory in the form of pieces of. millbo.ard

- I effective operatIOn It may be difficult and about' three feet square. Mechanical knivesexpensive to unscramble the crazy omelette." cut them and then cross-cut them. Then

Tl:le Sp~ctato:, Septe~ber 3, is more they are printed at the rate per machine ofcaunous : It might be WIsest to allow Mr. 11,000 an hour.Ab~rhart to pursue his co~rs: unchecked. . . About 1,000,000,000 tickets are issued in theIt IS extremely dou~tful If ~n fact any?f course of a year, without counting seasonMr. Aberhart s SOCIal Credit money [S1C] tickets. All have to be accounted for.would ever ?e accept~d and circulated, bu~ i~: They are all numbered and counted,. anda new election he mIght be returned agam. issued to stations in batches as required.

The Financial Times reports with great This applies to all tickets - single tickets,gusto that a "great" rally has been held at return tickets, workmen's tickets, throughCalgary in Alberta demanding the "imme- tickets, excursion tickets, dog tickets and alldiate resignation" of Mr. William Aberhart. the others. Each kind has a differentThe gathering, reported to consist of 8,000 marking. . .persOI~s:was ad?t'essed by lead:rs of the three: Those who supply the tickets to the stations '('ppo:,}tIOnparnes ot the pronnce. I know exactl v how rnanv go out. and com-

Six of thc seven opposition members in the olctc re(nrd; are kept. . ,House were elected irom Edmonton and . C;:,.;..:: -urrcr.dcr at the i(ll~=-::C\"';, end :1;(.C I .' " . r' -' .' ..a gary cor.sutucncres. so t r.a; tnc mecunz. t1ck(":~ zo back !,) 3.:1 (·i.1C(". ",'!:er{- ;::~!-~::drawn hom all the r:ei;hboL:ri:1g W·,\'-:'. is :::('1:: (j·u:. c-u:-:-:::::c ;::e :-.~r.:'x.~. ar.ci ":3(~

not verv impressive. t hcrn ::; :::t'a: :::~:c ;>::t·;. 0:' cancelled ;;';"_(':-.It is pertinent to add that a Social Credit Ii anv arc :n:;:si'-3! ar: cxpbr:a::r\:; i"

picnic was held in Calgary last y.car. atte n- required ir.im tr.c ;;:ati,):: rh at ,,!:ouid hav cdance 11,000, to celebrate the anl1l\'er;;ary of is-ued them.the election .of.the S.oci~lCredit Go~-ernment., After they have been sorted and checked I :::::!!

When a similar PICl1lCwas held m August 1 thev are boiled down to pulp to become I !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!=!=!===~~!!!!·!-!·!-=-!_£_.,Ithis year over 20,000 attended and sent the I tickets once more.following telegra~ to Mr. Mackenzie King: It is all quite simple, and. would . ~ork

"Over 20,000 citizens of Calgarv assembled beautifully except for one thmg. Millionsdemar:d that the .Rif!.htHon. Mackenzie Kinf!, of people who would like to have some ~fsubmit to the unl] of the Albertan people. these tickets will not be able to lay their

"That he also rescind his action disallowing hands on them.three bank bills passed by Alberta Govern- It is hard lines on them, for some of themrnent, That he also fulfil his pre-election may want most desperately to travel. It is apromises regarding Bank of Canada Act, and matter of life and death sometimes.his 'hands off Alberta' policy." Millions would just like "to go places and

-------------------._------------------- see things," and why should they not?-the

MEXICO NOW HAS A CENTRAL BANK travelling faci~ities are there. . .i It is hard lines, too, on the r~Ilway com-

panies, who not only have the tickets readybut also the trains, and the railways, and thesignals, and the stations, and the willingworkers. .

Yet there will be many empty seats on ther swiftly-moving trains,' in spite of much

advertising.For the people have not enough money

tickets to buy the railway tickets. .Silly it may be, but what are you gomg to

do about it?

AGUN,AND--TWELVE HUNDRED"GIVE us a gun," cried a wrathful

Social Crediter at Lakeviewwhen Premier Aberhart announced theOttawa veto on Alberta's Bank Legisla-tion. It was a crucial moment thatfollowed, and the resultant pregnantsilence speaks volumes for the sanityof Albertans. And when PremierAberhart warned his listeners, "No!Not that way!" he voiced the feelingsof all true democrats in Alberta.

Though thwarted in their first majoreffort to wrest control of credit fromthe financial usurpers, they remaincalm, these democrats; because theyrealise that in their struggle for self-determination the will of the peoplemust prevail.

With some parties, however, the willof the people is rarely considered.From one of them comes a demand fornot one gun, but twelve hundred.

It happened in Edmonton, and thestory is told as authentic by one whowas a listener. The speaker who voicedthe demand is well known, and hisstatements appear periodically in theOpposition press. "Give me onegeneral," he is reported as saying, "andtwelve hundred men withrifies, and intwo weeks I'll have the province on itsfeet. 'I'll' drive Social Credit clean out."

And that, of course, is the differencebetween a wrathful democrat and onewho is something else entirely.-H.D.C. in "Today and Tomorrow."

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One ThousandMillion RailwayTickets NowBeing Printed

ALBERTASpecial Features

Tbis Week

On Page Tbree

Alberta's Reply to"Disallowance"

On Page FiveMr. L. D. Byrne

TemporaryCommissioner to the

Government ofAlbertawrites exclusively forSOCIAL CREDIT

On Page Eight

An UnhappyPrecedent

Mr. Mackenzie King'sDilemma

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NEW YORK CHILDRENSHOW THE WAY

DURING the recent hot spell the NewYork Times reported that about 150

children between the ages of 9 and 15, in theBronx, clad in bathing suits, appeared at aBranch Office of the Department of WaterSupply, Gas and Electricity, chanting "WEWANT SHOWERS."

Employees tried in vain to shunt themto the Fire Department, explaining juris-diction in the matter lay there. The young-sters were adamant. With correct tacticsthey left the technique of how to satisfytheir demands to the proper authorities.They demanded results-water supply fromcity hydrants.Their next move \\"3:' a sit-down strike in

the drive wav of the Dcnartrncnr.S!IT.:>~e_ unspoiled c!1:~d-p;'\'(hClk'2" k r.cw

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FIG TREEcontains contributions by

The Editor False WitnessMiles· Hyatt European Tug-of-WarThe Dean of Canterbury Unto This LastR. L. Northridge The Shape of Things PastW. L. Bardsley Mr. Hawtrey's Giraffe-II.A. W. Coleman

The One Condition for PeaceR. Rogers Smith Canada Calling

Major Douglas onDictatorship by Taxation

A. Hamilton Mcintyre. G. R. Robertson,John Hewlett Edwards, Herbert Bluen,Thomas Flett. K. McCarty, Geoffrey Dobbs

no mO'neyin its Treasury to pay its soldiersand its civil servants."So a totalitarian state can print all the

money it requires! The criticism usuallylevelled against those who have the hardihoodto suggest that any government can print allthe money it requires, is that mO'ney musthave "a backing" or it is useless. It used tobe a gold backing, but faith in gold havingbeen somewhat shaken recently, it is nowTail Chasing ~sse,~ed vaguely that there "must be a back-

THE Ministry of Labour is about to em- mg. . .bark on a cost-of-living census. Thirty We permIt farmers to be fined for growmg

thousand British housewives are to be asked too many po:tatoes, fishermen to be preventedin the near future how they spend their hus- from catching to? many fish; we allowband's wages. 10,000,00? cotton spindles to be scrapped, and

The Ministry of Labour wants to know ,,:e connive at the reduction of the world'shO'Wmuch is spent on food, clothes, enter- \\~e~1;acreage .. Would not these very g~stainment and holidays. It wants particularly provide a backing for .the extra money whichto knowabont the quantity and quality,U£ .YV~;mlµ.?~u.wle,them to' be bought and con-foodstuffs purchased. sumed .

The utter uselessness of this sort of inquiry The statement that a totalitarian state canat this sort of time must be obvious to' any- ".print all the money" !t needs, is an implica-one except an economist O'r a permanent uOI_lth.at a .democrat'tC state cannot do so,official. which IS ludicrO'us. Are we asked to believe

When people have not enough money to that a dictatorship is necessary in order tospend, the inquiry will merely show the fo~ce people to' accept an increase of well-effects of not having enough mO'neyto spend. berng. or tha~ a democratic people would

For example, meat prices are up 15 to 20 revolt and bnng down a govemmenr thatper cent. since last year. This means either proposed to make them richer?less meat for the poor or less of something Of course, the Japanese Government iselse. "printing" the extra mO'neyin order to wage

Th~re is a pretty. situa.tion in which to war on t~e Chinese and force them to' "buycompile a cost-of-living index. But, here Japanese, not for the benefit of its peopleagain, might not such an index give further But it could do so, and so could our ow;'power to the credit-controlling monopoly, in government. It will do so when the peopleputting on the screw JUStwhere it liked? . insist uPO'nit.

* *about as helpful as it would be to point outthat a certain number of fatal road accidentsare deliberate suicide.

Neither the abolition of poverty nor theprovision of safe roads are in the least degreeassisted by such red herrings.

have been proved to be sound and efficient,Commissions of Inquiry into systems havebeen instituted."

Later in the article it was pointed outcarefully that "the banks came out of thecrisis with flying colours."

This kind of statement is a bit late inthe day to raise any cheers from theAustralian people-those who have survived,that is.

Meanwhile, elsewhere it is announced thatin the seven years, from 1930 to 1936, Aus-tralia lost nearly 30,000' people of Britishstock. In the financial year just closed 1,248Britons have left that continent. How manyhave been carried to the cemeteries duringthis period as a consequence of the "flyingcolours" policy of the banks is not disclosed,but the facts justify immediately the passingof an Act to License the Banks-if Australiais to be made safe to live in.

T.U. Leaders Agree WithHitler

HERR HITLER, speaking to an audience, of 30,000 at Nuremberg said "Germarnyhas solved her most difficult social problemand solved it completely. There are no realunemJ?loyed in the country." ,

Whilst these words were being spoken, theTrades Union Congress at Norwich waspassing, with great solemnity, a resolutionsupporting the Government's armament pro-gramme chiefly on the grO'unds that it foundwork and wages for its members!

The Stalins, the Hitlers, the internationalbankers, are all agreed on denying displacedworkers the wages of the machine! All areimplacably opposed to the free distributionof the consumer-dividends made possible bythe machine.

Can it be that trade union leaders are infavour of denying our own people access tothe goods we can produce for peaceful pur-poses unless they are "employed" in makingguns and bombs?

Alas, the resolution passed at the Congressmakes it appear so.

They persist in demanding "employment"rather than dividends, and, like Hitler, regard"unemployment" as a problem to' be solvedinstead of an increment made possible bythe machine and to be distributed to' all.

The Whitewash Won'tStick

The Suicide VerdictMR. Claude Mullins, speaking at the

Modern Churchmen's Conference, isreported to have said: "The well-intentionedbut cruel verdict of a coroner's jury that asuicide died while temporarily insane is themost glaring example of outworn religiousbelief in our law to-day." ,

He has started a mild controversy onminor points, but he has put his finger on amajor issue. '

The actual verdict is usually, "Suicidewhile of unsound mind," and its chiefdemerit is that it is nearly always untrue.That being so, neither religious belief nOTadogmatic assumption regarding the "feel-ings" of relatives can excuse it.

Suicide is due to despair, and the prepon-derating cause of despair to-day is moneytrouble-bankruptcy, poverty, fear ofpoverty, often accompanied by a feeling ofhaving "let down" one's' dependents

There are tWOother imI?0rtant though lessnumerous causes of despair : disappointmentin love, and incurable disease.

There remain a very few cases of alcoholicor drug poisoning, or inherited insanity, inwhich the conventional verdict is more orless justfied.

What the conventional verdict does is toconceal the truth from the public, and thetruth is that the suicide rate rises and fallswith the bankruptcy rate as the chart at thefoot of this column shows.

Jarrow WaitsA CAUSTIC leading article in the New-

castle Evening Chronicle sums up theachievements of Sir John Jarvis in aid of thestricken people of Jarrow. We quote the fol-lowing passages from it:

"The battle has been won," said Sir JohnJarvis at Jarrow on Saturday. What battle?The battle to set jarrow on its feet again.

There was a calm assurance about SlirJohn's remarks which made those presentlook involuntarily around the landscape tosee where the dreams were being materialised.

Among the things Jarrow now has, or isabout to have, are, to use Sir John's ownwords, a new steelworks of the most modemtype around which is grouped a number offinishing industries; the new Jarrow tubeworks; four new metal industries, and plentyof orders. That sounds excellent until onebegins to ask questions . . .

Sir John, as we know, has employed menin laying out the sports grO'und on which hewas speaking on Saturday, another group onbreaking up the Olympic. . . .

Every now and again we were broughtdown to earth by such remarks as, "I cannottell you when the steelworks will function."As if a railway guard said to a passengerkicking his heels at a station, "I cannot tellyou when the train will start," V. .,"._. )"

Blindness in the TimesA CORRESPONDENT in The Times,

writing at length about the economicresources of Japan, points out that "she couldmuster at least 2,000,00'0 men withoutcrippling her economic organisation."

This is the kind of fact that "work"maniacs, or to be more precise, people suffer-ing from "employment-problemitis," persistin perverting into a curse, and a potent movetowards war:

For if it means anything at all, the factthat 2,000,000 men can be withdrawn fromproduction without crippling economicorganisation means that paid leisure equiva-lent to the full time of 2,000,000 men isimmediately available for distribution.

It does not need a mathematical geniusto figure out that this means that 4,000,000'men in Japan can be paid full time realwages whilst employed only half tirne, with-out upsettiifg anything except a cock-eyedfinancial system.

The measure of man-hours that can bemobilised by any nation for belligerent pur-poses is the measure of part of the paidleisure that is restricted and destroyed inpeace time by the money monopoly andthose who control or worship it.

Goodwill is Not EnoughWE.cann~t blame the northerners for their

. Impauenc~. The well-meaning effortsof SIr John jarvis have had great publicity,and we ourselves have ventured to criticise~hem .at a time when lip service to his goodintennons would have been better received.

~he less:onis.a bitter one, but sorely.needed.It IS that in, spIte of most energetic and well-publicised efforts, no real benefit has beenconferred on Jarrow by all this search forwork. .

IN an article referring to the recent report I The people of Jarrow with money in theirof the Royal Commission in Australia to po.c~ets would be a fine market for enter-

Inquire into Banking, the Morning Post pnsmg producers. Without; it both they andendeavours to splash a lot of whitewash. the .producers must suffer. And producers~irst it tries to explain the inquiry by say- outside of'Jarrow cannot be expect~~ to lookmg: favourably on attempts at compeutlon with

"On the principle that there is nothing so them ~r0!ll Jarr~w:good that it might not be bettered, there is A Na~lOnal J?ividend would put the wholeto be found, perhaps, an explanation of why, I matter nght, WIthout fuss.at a time when bankin~ systems in a country

Totalitarians Can't GoBankrupt

THE following extract is taken from theCity Page of the News Chronicle:

"The phrase 'national bankruptcy' whichsprings so easily to some lips, has no usefulconnotation when applied to the financesof a totalitarian state like Japan. TheJapanese Government, like any otherabsolute Government, can print all themoney it requires. It is not going to' beconverted to' Pacifism simply because it has

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Coming EventsSOME of New York's millionaires now

arrive for business daily by seaplane,landing at the Skyport on East River at thefoot of Wall Street.

Another taste of the future. What,millionaires do today nearly everyone coulddo tomorrow. The time will come whenpeople wiUlive hundreds of miles from theirwork, in pleasant green country, flying in fora few hours' work, or a few days' work, andback again.

That time could have been now.

THE SUICIDE CHART

Red HerringTHERE has been great excitement in

Belgium about the relations of M. vanZeeland with the N ational Bank. In fact,all approaches to the Chamber, while thematter was being discussed, had to beguarded by strong police contingents, andtramway traffic was diverted.

The whole affair was so much of a redherring that one wonders what dirty workhas been put over under cover of the excite-ment,

We remember the terrific fuss that wasmade when Philip Snowden fought so tena-ciously for a whole [2,000,000 for Britain-though the British taxpayer never noticedthe difference! During the uproar the Bankof International Settlements came into being.

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:(The A Course is preparatory toexamination for less advanced Certi-ficate of the, Lectures and StudiesSection, whiih: must be obtainedwhether the student has taken one ofthe Courses or not, before entry for the1tWTeadvanced B Certificate.)(3). Course B. (By correspondence

only.) Fee £1 plus postalcharges.

Applications to join Lecture Course Ashould be made to the nearest Supervisor ofInformation. For Correspondence Course,apply to Miss, Bril, Social Credit Secretariat.Limited, 163A Strand, London, W.C.2.

A Blimpse of the ObviousONE of the stock bits of official sales patte.r

about the appalling state of nutrition inthis country is the statement that malnutri-tion is often due to overfeeding.

It is not only in cartoons of Colonel Blimpand his friends that this is said. Societydoctors trot it out in letters to the MorningPost and The Times.

The latest exhibit is Mr. C. E. Hecht, hon.secretary of the Food Education Society, ina lecture at Birmingham to the Hospital,Nursing and Public Health Conference.. It is perfectly true, of course. And it is Y E· .... R "S

"It is poverty and economicinsecurity which submitshuman nature to the greateststrain, a statement which iseasily provable by comparingsuicide statistics with bank-rupcy statistics and bU:sinessdepression.

"Suicides are less in numberduring wars, not becausepeople like wars, but becausethere is more money about.Suicides are also less in num-ber during trade booms. forthe same reason." - Major C.H. Douglas, "The Causes ofWar."

SOCIAL CREDIT, September 17, 1937 Pa~e 3

NOW IS THE TIME TO ACTIt was never' the intent and purpose of those who drew up wbatever ~onstitution we maybave that men and women, wbo as beirs and beiresses of sctence, are potentially the ri~be.tpeople on eartb, sbould live lives of insecurity, privation and bardship year after year. Thisleads me to agree witb you that "it is not ne~essary at tbis time to enter upon any dis~ussion."Tbat time bas passed-it is time to ace, anel we intend to do so.

'---_----------------A·BERHART

THE more closely I go into your telegram of August 17, 1937, the more evident itseems that, to your advisers, the letter of the law only is essential whilst the people's

welfare is of relatively little importance.Our minds here are continuously assailed by the fact that tens of thousands of 0 U R

PEOPLE live in dire need and hundreds of thousands of them are tax-ridden and debt-haunted. OUR PEOPLE insist that this shall be altered quickly: we feel sure that theirwill can be made to prevail without any alteration of our constitution.

It was never the intent and purpose of those who drew up whatever constitution wemay have that men and women, who, as heirs and heiresses of science, are potentiallythe richest people on earth, should live lives of insecurity, privation and hardship yearafter year. This leads me to agree with you that "it is not necessary at this time to enterupon any discussion." That time has passed-it is time to act, and we intend to do so.

It is not, therefore, for the purpose of discussion that I write but rather to place onrecord that which motivates us here.

ON August 17 the Prime Minister of Canada, Mr.Mackenzie King, telegraphed to Mr. William

Aberhart, Premier of Alberta, informing him that ata Cabinet meeting it had been decided to ((disallow"the three Banking Acts which the Albertan Govern-ment had passed on August 5 and 6. These Actswere designed to bring the business of banking underthe control of the people of Alberta to secure theresults demanded by them.

Mr. Aberhari immediately replied in a telegramdated August 19, which was reproduced in SOCIALCREDIT last' week. In it he challenged the right ofthe Dominion Government to disallow any provinciallegislation whatsoever, and promised to reply morefully. lVe are now privileged to publish on this pagethe promised reply by Mr. Aberhart.

To the Rt. Hon. W'. L. Mackenzie King, p.e., C.M.G.

WE contend that our iegislation was such that if under it, anyone attemptedto lay so much as a finger on a person to arrest him, he was immediately

free to appeal to our courts. We did, in truth, legislate to enable Albertans towithdraw the protection of their courts from anyone who violated or assisted othersto violate the property and civil rights of citizens of this province. After all, whyshould not Albertans be able to. refuse to associate with such self-declared enemiesof freedom in association? Why should Albertans maintain courts to succourand administer to such? What real injustice was being done that you shouldfeel called upon to interfere? We, here, marvel that your advisers seem so unableto realise that nothing to which any Government has recourse can ultimatelycompel THE PEOPLE of a province to associate with those of whose society theywould rather be rid.

Your attempt to say to THE PEOPLE "these bankers and their staffs arefederally shielded and whatever they do to deprive you of your undoubtedsovereignty in all matters pertaining to. your pro.perty and civil rights you shallsuffer at their hands" has led to a firm and lasting determination upon THEPEOPLE'S part to resist you.

Then there is seemingly an almost wilful blindness upon the part of youradvisers in that they will not differentiate between the control of banks and thecontrol of bank policy, i.e., the results which accrue from what is done in a bank.So far as we can trace none but people trading for their own profit, and quiteregardless of the effect upon everyone else, have ever previously exhibited anyinterest'in the results attendant upon operations in banks. I respectfully suggestthat the Federal Government has never done so, and our legislation in this respectencompassed no more.

All which our Acts secured in this way was that men in touch with factsconcerning industry, agriculture and commerce, upon which they are admittedlythe greatest living authorities, were appointed to see that what was done in banksresulted in those facts being reflected in figures. Our Acts also show that thelack of money in the pockets of THE PEOPLE should no longer suggest theself-evident lie that they were very poor when anyone with the intelligence of aschoolboy must see that here he is surrounded by a varied potential wealth inabundance. .

Our Acts rendered it utterly impossible for local boards to interfere, with theconduct of the present business of banking. 'What real danger could there be ofour legislation causing so much "disturbance and confusion" as to. lead yo.U toassume an obsolete authority for disallowance and to attempt to frustrate theobservance of the will of THE PEOPLE here?

* *Under present conditions OUR PEOPLE, who are willing to work, freeze;

although there is fuel of all sorts available. They lack shelter, although all theskill, energy and materials necessary for housing them adequately, are here. Theygo hungry, despite the fact that Alberta has land workers as skilled, farmers asexperienced and soil as fertile as any place in the whole world.

We claim that it is the responsibility of finance to. provide such qualities ofinducement and justice in the association of THE PEOPLE as will lead to theirbeing able to provide themselves with all they can make. of what they want, infreedom, and to distribute it with fairness.

We have had the reply from Canadian hankers "that's not our job, we areonly bankers," to. which there is no possible reply other than "if you won't acceptresponsibility for discharging this very necessary duty you must give way to thosewho. will: not as to how your banks shall be run but as to the results accruing fromthat which is done in them."

All this, of course, applies only so far as this province is concerned. Neithercitizens of other provinces nor the Federal ,Government can be in. any way adverselyaffected by Albertans realising the results of their own credit-in-association withintheir own borders.

The fact is your advisers are chiefly bankers and lawyers who, unfortunately toooften, think that THE PEOPLE are made for the systems and not the systemsfor THE PEOPLE. So often in the history of the world have such men "success-fully" opposed those seeking to interpret laws as a convenience to humanity, untilhumanity, exasperated beyond endurance, has asserted its will and dealt with thosewho. opposed it in ways which were, afterwards, regretted by all.

No power known to man can force on 750,000 people, operating within theirown clearly defined borders, laws which they have made up their minds they willnot endure-and that is the position I have to deal with here.

You were advised to write me that any citizen had only to re{M"esentthat"changes should be made in the banking and currency laws" when "the only bodywhich' has the due authority" would immediately give the matter prompt attentionand efficient direction.

To be frank, this is I10t the case, because, for over fifteen years, in ever-increasingnumbers, people of this province have been foremost in tellin~ the entire world that,if chaos was to. be avoided, the right orderin~ of the credit of a PEOPLE mustbe exercise? ?y that PEOPLE literal~y and individually, For at least four years anactual maJonty here have been saymg so and, at the last federal election, somewere induced to believe that it had at last had some effect on you, Sir. YET, whenthose duly elected to represent their will in this province pass legislation to

implement it, YOU accept advice to ask them to delay action whilst its validityis tested by a court whose measures are not the needs, wants and desires of 750,000people living in their own clearly-defined boundaries!

* * *It would seem to me that if yo.ur advisers had considered thoroughly the natureof credit they would not co~nsel you ~at cOI.ltroUingba~king, money, an~ currencyis, just the same as controlling the policy which those things are used to. Implement(i.e., the results they are used to. produce).

The telegram your advis~rs drafted ~or you contends in tJ:lesame paragraph (3)that the Public controls credit=-the Parliament controls banking and currency andthat it is the function of the Central Bank to control and regulate the volume ofcurrency and credit, a~~th~t the chartered banks carry out banking! I feel sureyou will agree the posmon IS not clearly defined by this,

May I state our views in these matters?(a) We agree to the public control of credit-actually the control by each individual

both of his own credit and of his credit in association. .(b) We .do not consider Parliaments can possibly be competent to control such a

highly technical business as banking=we think it is best left to bankers.(c) We feel sure that it does not matter who controls the issue of currency (so a

central bank will do), but it must be responsive to the control of policy by THEPEOPLE. . .

(d) It is, I assure you, as absurd to. imagine that anybody can control a PEOPLE'Scredit as to believe that you can control their desires or dislikes.

(e) The present business of banking could not be in much better hands than thechartered banks, provided the policy is left in the control of THE PEOPLE.Your advisers confuse the issue in paragraph 4 of your telegram. The Dominion

can have all the currency and banking laws it likes, provided it leaves Albertanswith the right they have always possessed to deal with their own credit in their ownProvince, in their own way, INDIVIDUALLY.

The only body that has ever had "due authority" to deal with the CREDITof a Province has been the Government of that Province, and the law is such thathad you, or anybody, deputed that authority even as far back as 70 or even 700years (to exaggerate for the purposes of illustration) and it had never once beenchallenged since,. still, now, when it is challenged, it is still illegal. The result ofyour advisers' attitude in these matters is that Banks undoubtedly think that becausethey hold your charter they can come in here and do what they like. Albertansare determined to show them that such is not the case; that whilst, legally, theymay be able to do so, there are other considerations than legal ones in the livesof all of us: considerations the observance of which is more vital than that of theletter of the law, because, if we do not observe them, living can be made veryunpleasant if not impossible for us.

That is why we agree with you that "it is not necessary at this time to enterupon any discussion of banking and monetary policy." The time for that has longpassed and now is the time for action, and we are impelled to take it.

If the Government at Ottawa was believed to be doing anything effective toimprove matters financial, there might be some excuse for our pausing.

But appointments of Commissions, all of one party, and the majority of whichare known, to be allied to the present financial regime, and system, and implacablyhostile to all suggestions for change in it, only serve to excite the derision of many,and a determination among progressives to have nothing to do with them.

With regard to your paragraph (5) there was no reason, or you would quote it,why our legislation could not have been implemented, as usual in such cases, whilstthe Courts were deciding its validity. There neither would nor could have beenany resultant "disturbance or confusion" unless we unwisely accepted your offerto defer effective action for the usual ineffectual discussion.

* *The position in which your advisers have put us in relation to THE PEOPLE

of this Province is that we now have to tell them:I. That it would be relatively simple to give them access to all the oil, coal

and other fuel they need, but YOU won't allow it.2. To. enable thein to make all the warm clothing they desire, but YOU think

it must be deferred whilst Acts of Parliament are argued. '3. That they could secure for themselves all the good and appetising. food

any reasonable person could ask, but the bankers' conveniently indeterminatemonopoly must be accorded precedence because YOU disinterred a corpse of alaw to purport to disallow the legislation which would have secured all the aboveamenities to OUR PEOPLE whilst depriving or harming none.

4. That banks, through charters engineered for them by political satellites areable, like the slave-owners who preceded them, to. batten and fatten on theenforced servitude of men and women who are compelled to. put up with anythingthat bankers think is good for them because YOU shield those bankers.As to this Government consulting with you, had you made the offer you now

do, at the time you were returned to power by numerous electors for that expresspurpose, and under a tacit promise to do so, we could have willingly agreed tohave deferred action during negotiations, but now we .can only agree to conferwhilst we continue to go ahead. The time for action has come and it must ensue.

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The, Common EnemyAN interesting article by Mr. A. R. Reade

appeared in the Fascist, or NationalSocialist organ, Action, for Sept. 11, entitled"National Socialism and Social Credit."

The writer, who of course was expressing. his own individual opinions, finds a numberot ideas in common between the two schoolsof thought, and there is an editorial com-

. ment that the banker is the enemy of both,and tries to make them antagonistic.

We welcome this evidence of sympatheticinterest in our cause on the part of theFascist movement and would not like to assistthe bankers in widening the breach whichhas appeared to exist. We will refer only,therefore, to what has seemed, we believe toboth parties, as the fundamental difference inthe two philosophies.

In the words of the article, "the NationalSocialist has started with a picture of societyas he feels it ought to be."

In our view the end of man, whilstunknown, is something towards which mostrapid progress will be made by the free expan-sion of individuality.

In the need' for an efficient hierarchy ofadministration we are in substantial agree-ment with the Fascists. But we believe thatthe results of administration should bedecided by the people, nor by the administra-tion.

Starn p on the LivingS

IR JOSIAH STAMP,\'apart from hisattacks on the idea of distributing

plenty, natural, apparently, to a B~nk ofEngland Director, has uttered strong news onthe desirability of extracting more and moretaxes from the public. ' ,

"While a few years ago," he .has said, "noone would have believed it possible that ascale of taxation such as that at present exist-ing could be imposed upon the British publicwithout revolution, I -have every hope thatwith skilful education and propaganda thisscale can be very considerably raised."

Or as Major Douglas had put it previously,what is intended is that if the individual hasenough money to keep himself alive, or topay taxes, he will be made to pay the taxes,most of which go to Financial Institutions.

Stamp on the DeadIN the Economic Section of the British. Association, Professor H. Levy, a Germaneconomist, presented a paper on "DeathBenefit and Industrial Insurance, or the Costof Dying." '

Professor Levy said that, notwithstandingthe many reforms and the general financialcleaning-up process of the last 30 years inindustrial insurance, complaints had notceased, and the social disadvantages and ill-effects of the system continued.

Industrial insurance is the misnomer for avast business which consists in collectingsmall' premiums from the very poor as aninsurance to provide for their own funeralexpenses.

According to a news item in the EveningStandard on September 14 there are over90,000,000 policies now in force, and whileover £50,000,000 has been collected by thesystem in premiums this year, less than£18,000,000 has been paid out in benefits.

After stating a number of well-knownabuses in the system, Professor Levy con-cluded that they appear to be inherent andinseparable from it.

Sir Josiah Stamp, commenting on thepaper, said that what was wanted was achange in public opinion in the workingclasses especially, which would establish amore reasonable proportion and' scale ofexpenses for burials. The present expendi-ture on funerals was altogether extraordinaryin relation to resources.

This question, of course, had a psychologi-cal background which it would take genera-tions to break down through the slowpressure of s<?cialopinion. People wanted .aJolly good time as well as to pay theirrespects to the dead. '

So it appears that if people have not evenenough money to pay taxes they must becontent with a cheap funeral.

Stop Fooling-Our Patience

Is .Wearing ThinSAYS PROFESSOR MURDOCHTHE Campaign to Abolish Poverty has been launched throughout

Australia, using a form, of demand almost identical with that which 'appears weekly on our back page. Recently the "West Australian,"Perth's leading daily neiospop er, published a leading article against thecampaign. Main points made were these:

No political candidate inould be embarrassed by being asked whetherhe was in favour of the abolition of pO'verty ; all will be found in accordon this subject. But the stubborn fact remains that poverty is every-where; in America, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, not onlyin Australia.

Legislators may justifiably resist the view that responsibility forpoverty and its cure rests wholly with them. It is a vast and complexquestion, and if the campaigners have any solution they will be expectednot to keep it up their sleeves.

We reprint below, from the "lVest Australian," the magnificentreply made by Professor Walter Murdoch, Professor of EnglishLiterature at the University of Perth.

I DEEPLY sympathise (as theWalrus said) with your remarks

on the Abolition of Poverty campaignlately launched in our midst; but I stillmore deeply disagree with them.

You are doubtless, perfectly right inasserting that every politician wishesfor the abolition of poverty (thoughsome, I fancy, desire it a little more .., 'ardently than others). Politicians of allparties will doubtless say to the ca~-paigners,', with great affability and'possibly with sincerity :

"'fitly dear, good, well-meaning people, whyaddress these remarks to me? Of course Iam with you heart and soul; I should simplylove to see you all prosperous and comfort-able and happy. I grieve for the poor allday long; by night my pillow is bedewedunth. tears of compassion for their misery;but-what can I do? Australia is not theonly country that is poor; all the world is inthe same boat. The subject of finance is sovast and tangled and complex that, with thebest will in the world, I can do nothing for,\lou-except, of course, sympathise. My •:It:f~~hy you have; yes, in enormous quan- Stra!g_ht_flung

Something like this politicians of all partieswill be willing to say; and it is, I regret tonotice, pretty much what you yourself havesaid.

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*you are kind enough to add that you do! not "discount the good intentions ofthe movers in the campaign." (You and Iknow very well that in a controversy to call.your opponent well-intentioned is exactlythe same as calling him half-witted.) Youend on a less generous note: "If the sincerityof such procedure is not to be impugned,it may certainly be questioned on the groundof common sense."

Against Common SenseAs to its sincerity: I am not one of the

"movers in the campaign"-though I shallalways be proud to serve in their ranks inany capacity for which I am fitted-but Iknow one or two of them, and I know whatheavy personal sacrifices they are makingfor the cause; such sacrifices as men do notmake for a cause they do not believe in.

I think you may take their sincerity forgranted, and fall back on the other alter-native, accusing . them of 'Sinning ,againstcommon sense.

This is where I most profoundly disagree.I think the campaign is an eminently sensibleproject.

*WHAT is against common. sense is to

acquiesce in the present preposterousmanagement of our affairs, whereby themore wealth we learn to produce the moredoes poverty .increase,

*What is against common sense is to sug-

gest that mankind cannot find a way outof an absurd system which mankind hasdevised.

What is against common sense is to askthe uninstructed public, a body ofamateurs, to name the remedy before itmay venture to protest.

What is against common sense is to say,as you have practically said} that the.politicans are not the persons who shouldbe called upon to seek the remedy.If it is noc the duty of politicians to seek,

with all. their energy and ability, the commonwelfare, what in the name of common senseare politicians for? What do we send themto Parliament for ?-to twiddle their thumbs?

*you cannot have it both ways. Whenwe suggest remedies you reproach us

with being ignorant amateurs! rushing inwhere the experts fear to tread; when wehumbly accept the rebuke and say that weare prepared to leave it to the experts to saywhat is the best remedy, you reproach uswith not having a remedy up our sleeves.

There seems to be no pleasing you.

WordsIf what yOoUmean is that the politicians

are not responsible because it is the finan-ciers whOoreally hold our social welfare in thehollow of their hands-well, that may betrue; in which case it will be well to facethe fact that we are the slaves of high finance,and that the word "democracy" is a mockery.

That slavery will be endured for a time;in the end, a way out will be found, butit will not be a way which you or I cancontemplate with equanimity. It will bea way from which it is your duty, andmine, and the duty of all men of goodwill, to seek to save Australia.

*BUT if we are a real democracy, in a-nygenuine sense of the term, we have to

turn our political power into economic power.Our politicians must politely but firmly

inform the financial experts that they are theservants and not the masters of the country.They must assemble a competent body ofsuch experts, and say to them: \

"Here is an evil which, it is. obvious to themeanest intelligence, is a preventable evil;and which must and shall be prevented. Atleast halj-a-dozen. remedies have been sug-gested by economists who deserve attention.Your job is to decide which of these sug-gested remedies is, on the whole, the best. If,at the end of a reasonable time, you come tous and tell us that there is no remedy forthis intolerable state of affairs, we shall-withapologies for having mistaken you for experts-show you to the door, and call in some

,other persons better fitted for the task." ,This, as I understand it, is the objective of

the present campaign; to tell the politicians,"in straig-ht-flung words and few," that ourpatience is wearing thin, and that they mustcease fooling with trivial questions (such as

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whether wild flowers mayor may not bepicked within a 50-mile radius of the city)and concentrate all they have of vigour andintelligence on the solution of the problemwhich circumstances have made the mosturgent of our time.

I cannot for the life of me see that thereis anything in this' demand opposed to.common sense.

*SIR E. D. SIMON, in a recent address,revealed the facts that in a town whose

conditions he had mvestigated, the childrenof hundreds of unemployed families got nomilk whatever; chat no child of an unem-ployed family got more than half the milka child ought to have; that the retail priceof milk was 2S.a gallon, nobody being allowedto retail it at a lower price; and that surplusmilk was sold to the manufacturers ofurnbrella handles at 4d. per gallon.

Farmers in the neighbourhood, he found,were anxious to produce more milk, butcould fmd no market.

The people were bewildered, "quite unableto understand why the farmers should notbe able to find an outlet for all the milkthey were able to produce, nor why milk forumbrella handles should be provided liter-ally at one-sixth the price which they hadto pay for milk for their under-nourishedchildren."

What most surprised Sir E. D. Simon was"the moderation with which these extra-ordinary and (to them) unintelligible factswas received."

There Is NoN eedTo Be An Expert

That is in England; but we all know per-feci:ly well that if we keep our eyes open weshall see on all sides of us, in Australiaand in every other country, similar Iprepos-terous facts. .

And, great and' admirable as the"moderation" of our people is, it must notbe expected to last for ever.They are bound to grow tired of being told

that the subject is a vast and complex one;also that it is an international problem andcannot be solved by any one country-withthe implication that we can do nothing aboutit until Czechoslovakia and Kamchatka havemade a lljIQvein the matter.

*THE International Labour Organisation,in its latest bulletin, remarks that "per-

haps the most outstanding lesson of theslump is to be found in the profound changewhich it has produced in ideas about mone-tary policy. In this field more than in anyother lies the key to economic prosperity andsocial progress."

One does not need to be an expert to seethat this is true.

Such recovery as we are witnessing atpresent is obviously due, in the main, to thepurchasing power supplied to the people bythe vast rearmament schemes of the nations ..When the nations call a halt in the matterof rearmament (if they ever do) there islikely to be a far worse depression than thelast unless we do one of two things.

When Money Flows--We may, in the first place, start a war;

in war, as everyone knows, purchasing poweris distributed generously; the floodgates ofcredit are opened :wide; money flows likewater-or like blood.

Alternatively, we may direct our govern-ments to provide in peace-time the pur-chasing power which they have no diffi-culty in providing in war-time.

*THIS seems to me-and, I trust, to you

when you think it over-the preferablealternative: to say to our rulers,

"This is the thing you have got to do. Howyou are to do it we do not presume to say;we are not your technical advisers, thereforewe leave the technique to you to discover bythe best means at your disposal. '

"We know that' the thing can be done; andwe require you to do it.. "We warn you that we shall not be content.with promises; promises are readily given, andreadily forgotten.

"We are going to watch you, lest youforKet, lest you forget."

This is what the leaders of the campaign,if I interpret their meaning correctly, intendthat the people of Australia shall say withunited voice to the. politicians of Australia.

SOCIAL CREDIT. September 17. 1937

NOW IS THETIME TO ACTMr. Aberhart's ChallengingReply to Mr. Mackenzie King

(Continued from page 3)

If your Government still desires to conferwith ours, we will so aJ"range it, but not onthe condition of delayed action by Alberta.That would be much too costly. Your atti-tude now which exalts the institution abovethe individual is fraught with danger-notonly to THE PEOPLE in this Province, butto all Canadians.

War-price structures-trade disturbances=-and world depressions, are all manifesta-tions of frustration which arise from separat-ing PEOPLE from freedom to realise theresults derived from their own credit in asso-ciation. This realisation of results is, weclaim, the first "essential step to the main- =tenance of our democratic institutions and the ~preservation of the hard-won rights and §liberties of individual citizens." !

* * * 'IWhile awaiting the outcome of any

negotiation that might be entered into, wemust in the meantime proceed most rapidlyto end poverty and starvation in this pro-vince. In order to accomplish this, we aregoing to implement immediately the legisla-tion passed at our last session and which youpurported to disallow.

We propose to go through the formalityof asking. you to withdraw your "disallow-ance" before it is proclaimed here.

In this connection, I might state that wehave gone more fully into the matter of dis-allowance and find that you have not nowsuch powers. Consequently, our legislationis still law and will remain law until declaredultra vires by the Courts. If, and when, thissituation does arise, we may point out theposition of Manitoba in enforcing legislationwhich had been declared ultra vires by thePrivy Council nearly 50 years ago and whichyou and previous Governments have neverdisallowed even when you still had that rightwhich we repeat you do not now enjoy.

In conclusion, may I issue a most solemnwarning to you and the banks that our peoplehave tightened their .belts to the limit, andif you and the banks are allowed to continuewith the policy you have been carrying outfor years, it will mean the starvation of ourpeople. This we are determined to avoid atall cost. We are sorry that we have not hadyour co-operation in our endeavour to alle-viate the suffering of our people in this' Pro-vince. Nevertheless, for the sake of ,OURPEOPLE we are compelled to carryon in theface of all opposition.

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*THE situation is developing rapidly. In going ahead withimplementing the demands of THE PEOPLE of Alberta,

Premier Aberhart has challenged the supreme power in theworld-the tyranny of finance. The battle of the ages hascommenced and one side must win.

At such a time, with the future. of humanity in the balance,.every Social Crediter everywhere s'hould throw himself or her-self into the fIght. Each has a very grave personal responsi-bility in this critical hour in the world's history and the out-come of the' struggle will depend upon how each faces thisresponsibility. Tomorrow may be too late; the time to act isNOW. .

SIDE

A N American _journalist v.isiting Alberta: about a ~t

ago very nghtly descnbed Edmonton, the capltilthe Province, as the centre of world news at a time vevents in every country were of immense importance. Theit is since the issue of Social Credit has arisen in Albertait has' figured so prominently in the news, it has verystantial claims to recognition apart from this.

The Prevince of Alberta is one of the most richly endcparts of the earth. Its soil, in places some of the most fein the North American continent, yields it~ share ofworld's finest wheat. Sugar beet, poultry, sheep, cattle.pigs each occupy an important place in the productioAlberta's chief industry-namely, agriculture.

However, the immense potential resources of the PrO\are in her minerals. In the Turner Valley, the only devehoilfields of possibly many oil areas, are the largest produoil wells in the British Empire. Further developmertaking place, and the results up to the present have I

extremely promising. In the Murry district 10,000 samiles of tar sands are said to have an oil content of overtimes the total oil content of the world's known oil reseand experiments have indicated that in addition a very •quality of petrol can be extracted from these deposits.the same district rich salt deposits await exploitation.

Timber, water power, clay deposits, and coal in immquantities add to the resources awaiting development. ,a modest population of under three-quarters of a million. lof whom are concentrated in agriculture, it will be evithat the opportunities for progress in Alberta are allunlimited.

*THAT is one aspect of the picture. To the people livingthere the vast resources of the Province are only too

evident-though even for them it is difficult to realise theextent of Alberta's riches. What they do know beyondany shadow of doubt is that their resources could give securityto all.

Yet the entire Province is debt-ridden and poverty-stricken.The farms are mortgaged, the crops are mortgaged to thehanks in advance, and the conditions under which most ofthe people exist is little removed from slavery. The followingtable of the increase of Provincial debt tells its own vividstory :

Year Gross public debt1910 .. . , . . $2,981,5441915 ... ." $26>935,580

- 1920 . . . . .. $45,818,9221925 ... ... :.. $91,196>1791930 . .. .. , $119,843,6331935 .. , ... $16'3,288,234,_

It is probable that private debts have increased, even moresteeply during this period. '

'*IN considering these facts it must be remembered that

Alberta is comparatively a young Province. Most of itsdevelopment has taken place during the past 60 years. It isnot surprising that here, before any other place in the world,it has become evident to the people that a savage financialsystem has reduced what should be a wealthy and progressiveProvince to a condition of poverty bordering upon collapse.Year by year the people of Alberta have witnessed the terribleblight which debt, taxation and financial restrictions have cast

. upon their Eden.Under such conditions the appeal of Social Credit met with

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TWO THOUSAND SCIENTISTSIngenuity

THE attendance at this year's_ meeting of the British

Association at Nottingham wassmaller than when it first visitedNottingham seventy years ago.

From the thin and unsatisfying utterancesmade, it may be deduced that careful stepswere taken to see that nobody should makesuch explosive and awkward speeches as weredelivered in 1935 and 1936.

Such preparations would be fully sufficientto account for the paucity of the attendance.Everybody would know that it was to be like.a Sunday School treat, and it was in the besttraditions of parish journalism that TheTimes announced that the British Associa-tion had "well maintained its customary high'standard of usefulness and interest."

Here is an actual, newspaper account of ameeting of the mathematical section.

"They sat dutifully from 10 a.m. until theluncheon hour and were agreed as to thenecessity for reforms in the present methods-of teaching algebra."

In the educational science section they hadto listen to this sort of thing, as reported in'The Times:

"Professor R. Peers said that science domi-nated our liues to-day, and a knowledge ofscience must be regarded as an essential part:of the informative content of education. Someknowledge of physiology and chemistry hadccme to be an essential condition of goodliving in the modern community. One hadonly to think of the important principles of

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of an African Tunnelling Maggot,knowledge of certain aspects of science.Knoioledge of some at least of tho naturalsciences was a necessary background for thestudy of social science, which was forming aconsiderable part of the curriculum of adulteducation. The analysis used in the naturalsciences was needed as a corrective of loosethinking and hasty generalisations, whichcharacterised the discussion of many impor-tant problems of modem life."

A Few PointersBritons need ['200,000,000 worth more food

than they can buy every year to provideperfect nutrition, according to' Sir RichardGregory, the editor of Nature.

He told business men at a Nottinghamluncheon that '20,000,000 people, or nearlyhalf the population, need to consume moreexpensive foods, such as milk, fruit andvegetables, to improve their health.

"Examinations of family food budgets andfamily incomes show," he said, "that price isthe limiting factor fur consumption of thesethings."

'All this was said at last year's meeting, andmuch more forcibly, and not at a luncheon.

A plan to "short-circuit" the cow and makecheese direct £rom grass to provide food forBritain's forty millions in the event of warwas outlined by Dr. R. E. Slade.

The cheese, he said, would make a usefulfood for pigs in peace time, and in time ofnecessity might supply a "nutritious andvaluable maintenance' ration for the people."

Advertising British food and steering con-sumption by direct publicity should become____ !_ .. !. .. ._ or. ,....._ •

tional or marketing policies, said Mr. A. N.Duckham.

Mr. J. M. Case, President of the Agricul-tural Section, told his audience that ourwheat acreage shows no significant increasein yield per acre. British agriculture atpresent falls short of producing as muchhome-grown food as is possible and desir-able, and also of employing on the land as .many persons as is reasonably practicable. -Since the pre-war years 2,000,000 acres havegone out of arable cultivation.The best things which were said were one

by Mr. Gordon Selfridge, jun., on retailstores.

Every facet of the organisation of thesecomplex businesses and all their applicationswere there for one reason only-namely,because the individual customers wantedthem there and were willing to pay to havethem there. That was the difference betweenretail trade and all the preceding links in thechain of production and supply.

In everything the retailer did it wasthose demands of the customer for whichthe customer was willing to pay that deter-mined action. Competition would put outof existence the trader who guessedwrongly what the customer wanted tohave and to have done.The other was by Dr. E. Miller, who said

the methods of so-called intellectuals might-belie their motives. How much of so-calledintellectual avoidance of direct solutions? Ittion for unconscious deficiencies or uncon-scious conflicts which took the form of anintelectual avoidance of direct solutions? It

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persons were singularly incapable of takingaction even when their intelligence presentedclear lines for the pursuit of a solution.

.Our headline for this article is copiedfrom one of the News Chronicle reports.It sums up the whole affair.

Blunt Criticismof Labour Party'sPensions PlanTHE Labour Pensions Plan,

with its surrender to finan-cial orthodoxy, came in for bluntcriticism at the Trades UnionCongress in Norwich.Mr. T. Griffen (National Union of Dyers)

moved its rejection, saying:"If this is all Labour can give us when

they get into power then God help theworking classes of this country."Until now, said Mr. Griffen scornfully, the

party had always talked of non-contributorypensions, but now he understood that menwould have to pay IS. a week and women9d.

Party politicians have to obey the partywhip and give the people what is considered ,,_good for them-not on any account whaf';;they want.. .,' ..,

Mr. Griffen is about ready to abandon.-_~~.......J.._~_ ......__

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Parents Start Their OwnUSE YOUR AUTHORITY

WE hear a lot of talk nowadays about the relative merits of Democracyand Dictatorship, and most of the points for and against are v~ry

subtle and abstract. Now it is obvious to anyone who gives the matter someconsideration that the only way of judging any system of government if byhow it works-by what it feels like to be governed. Subtleties, abstractsand ultimate ideals only come into the matter as they are put into practice-American gunmen, who are so frequently depicted on the films mowing downrows of good citizens, may have many philanthropic theories about theGood of Man, but the effects of their gunning activities on their fellow mencannot be judged by these. Only by the deadness of the individuals. .

What does it feel like to be governed as we are now?

*To begin with, it doesn't feel like a democracy; it doesn't feel as if we are governingourselves. It is too uncomfortable. If we were governing ourselves we should make

ourselves more comfortable and arrange things in our own districts to suit our ownindividual ends. In small affairs as well as in large the institutions we put together toserve us and to obtain for us what we wanted in specific directions appear to be tellingus what we want and in many cases administering it forcibly without even the grace ofa sugar-coating to the pill. As if the waitress in the shop had firmly told us that we wereto have mutton today, not fish.

But when this tyranny of little things goes too far, people begin to get irritated aridquestion the annoyances that are the outcome; and then they may develop the "My-Goodness - this - is - really - too - much - to - be - stood - Charles - we - must - do, - some-thing - about - this" feeling. When, in a mass, they give vent to this feeling, theyfrequently discover that the offending institution has just not realised the effect of itsactions and only needed to be told about it to correct them. Or if they want somethingdone, as soon as they know what it is, the authority will do it; as in the case of the Tottonresidents who asked the Parish Council to get them a reduction in bus fares. .

Sometimes it takes sterner measures to show that the people intend to get what theywant-as the parents living on the Thornhill Estate, Charlton, S.E., found. When theypetitioned for a policeman to conduct the children across the road, the petition failed,so they conducted a one-day school strike and got their policeman. Where local' authori-ties have completely forgotten their origin as representatives of the people, heroicdetermination may be necessary, as at Romford., *EVIDENTL Y, since we will go to such lengths to get what we want, we still .have a

tendency towards liberty. Judging by the number of school strikes and demands forthe imposition of a speed limit on the roads, this spirit seems to be most easily arousedby concern for our children.

There is only one disquieting thing about it, and that is its habit. of ·manifestiri'g ..itself in the form of petitions. There is an avalanche of petitions reported this week-and may they all succeed-but a petition is no way to address a body elected to serveyou. '

The Government, both central and local, professes to be democratic and is thereforebound to rule according to our wishes. Put at the best; it cannot give us what we wantuntil it knows what it is; so we must say what we want. Put at the worst, it refuses togive us what we want; in which case we must fight for it, remembering that councilsconsist of elected members who may always be turned out at election time. It is morethan just a matter of words: make a petition for something and you are "askinghumbly"-you acknowledge that the authority is not with you.

But the authority is yours--so use it.

They Get .What They WantTHE Hampshire County Council planned to build a 120ft. highway encircling the

small town of Totton.This so-called bye-pass would have made a cross-roads, two corners of which would

have been occupied by a recreation ground and a workman's club; and a parish churchand hall were situated 50 yards, and the site of a proposed school 'loa yards away fromit. At another cross-roads further on the road would have passed two elementaryschools.

It is difficult to believe that anyone who had studied the site, or even the plan, couldsuggest such a route for a road carrying all the fast traffic of the district.

Owing to the personal efforts to Mr. J. Doulton, the compulsory sale of whose housewas involved, this scheme was altered.

First he brought the matter up when the County Councillor spoke at a meeting of theRatepayers' Association. In spite of polite 1 '

promises to investigate nothing had beendone at the end of a month, nor had anycommunication been received from the Coun-cillor.

Mr. Doulton then wrote to the Councillorand received, in due course, a courteous reply.

After that he tried' the local paper, andpersuaded several neighbours to write lettersas well; he also wrote to the Ministry ofTransport and the Member of Parliament;and he started to obtain signatures to a"protest."

Within a month, largely because of pres-sure from the Ministry and the Member, thesurveyors were plotting an alternative andsafe route.

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Now that the buses are stopped atHammersmith, passengers to Richmondhave to change and waste up to 20 or moreminutes in waiting for buses. Local busi-ness interests are being affected, as fewerpeople will come to live there now thattransport in and out of London is so bad.

The L.P.T.B. say that complaints werereceived about the irregularity of thebuses-so they stopped them!

Comment: Catty!

Bus Route,33

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LONDONERS who use the 33 bus route,formerly from the Strand to Rich-

mond, and who object to its curtailment atHammersmith, are asked to join in ademand for an efficient service fromRichmond to the City. Forms expressingthis request and ready for signatures maybe obtained from J. Mitchell, 28, LarkfieldRoad, Richmond, and as soon as there isevidence that people want such a bus'service, pressure will be brought to bear onthe L.P.T.B. Letters direct to the Trans-port Board will also help.That Councillor only represented his elec-

tors in the district after the necessity hadbeen emphasised by the Ministry of Trans-port and a Member of Parliament.

In future he should go direct to the foun-tain-head of authority for instructions; tothe people concerned.

Totton Bus-FaresThe Parish Council of' Totton appear to

realise this their function; on receipt of apetition asking them to obtain from theHampshire and Dorset Bus Co. a reductionin a certain bus-fare, they carried thenegotiations through successfully and pro-vided the required results.

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ROMFORD parents who are protesting against the decision of EssexEducation Committee to transfer 300 children to another school two

miles away, have formed their own private school, which opened onSeptember 7 in a recreation ground. . .

It is to the journey dowri and across the busy London Road-a mile of it, heavy withtraffic-that the parents object.

Half an hour before lessons began in the field, the children, all senior (I I toI4-year-old) pupils, had. formally presented themselves at their old school with a bodyof parents in support.Essex Education Committee has decided

that juniors (8 to ro-year-olds) only shall betaught there in future, and that the seniorsmust now go to a new school in WhaleboneLane, a mile and a quarter away.

The children were, therefore, lined upand marched, amid considerable localexcitement, to the recreation ground,which is well away from the traffic andfairly close to the old school.In charge of them was the new master,

Mr. T. H. Harvey, L.C.C. supply teacher,who began by compiling a register. At theend of the morning it contained 212 names.Twelve more pupils arrived after lunch-time.

REBELLION

Parents Stand FirmThe parents who were there declared

roundly that they intended to "go throughwith this." Nothing but the extension of theold school or a new school nearby, wouldsatisfy them.

Mothers spoke of the traffic dangers andthe long walk in winter weather.

Councillor A. E. Fruitnight, who is officialchampion of the parents, said that, if negotia-tions with the Education Committee werenot satisfactory they would get more teachersand run the school in earnest in local churchand mission halls.

Sympathisers have promised enoughmoney to go on for six months.. T4:ie.1921Education Act says that it shallbe the parents' duty to see that children get"efficient elementary instruction in reading,w.riting and arithmetic."

As long as the Rebel School does that, itssponsors claim, it can go on, quite legally,for as long as it likes.

Education Committee Giving WayA compromise has already been offered.

A deputation from the Parents' Associationhas met the Romford school managers, whohave now offered alternative school accommo-dation, much nearer to the children livingfarthest from the new school at Whalebone.This offer affects half the London Road chil-dren. If the parents accept the plan therebellion will be over.

Romford parents have the courage of theirconvictions, and may that courage continueuntil they have gained safety for all thechildren, not only for half.

Rebel Education CommitteeThe school started by the parents has been

nicknamed the "rebel" school, and the"insurgent" school. These adjectives are mis-applied. They belong to the Education Com-mittee. . ,

From where do the members of the Educa-tion Committee derive their authority? Fromthe ratepayers. They are the elected repre-sentatives of the ratepayers, and as such

ATSchoolROMFORD

should fulfil their reasonable wishes in thematter of the children's education, and in.refusing to implement them the Committeeis the rebel.

WANTED•Prevention of Flooding

at BroughtonWhen a petition by 25 Broughton

shopkeepers asking for steps to betaken to prevent flooding was con-sidered by Salford Council, Dr. Shlos-berg, for the Highway and PavingCommittee, said storms were an act ofGod, and no highways authority couldbe held responsible. Measures hadbeen discussed with a view to reducinginconvenience to a minimum.

Alderman Webb reminded theCouncil that 10 years ago the then CityEngineer stated that he could nolonger hold himself responsible for thecondition of the drains and sewers inthe city, but nothing had been done toremedy the position.

•Speed-Limit at ElthamNew Eltham residents have sent' a

petition to the Ministry of Transportasking for the imposition of a 30 mile-an-hour speed limit on Sidcup-roadbetween .Court-road, Mottingham, andKemnal-corner, a stretch which theydescribe as a "death-trap." Several fatalaccidents have occurred on it recently.

•Fire Station at Muswell Hill .Residents in Muswell Hill are object-

ing to Hornsey Borough Council'sproposal to close the 25-year-old firesub-station at Fortis Green.

It is proposed to build a new centralfire-station on the old Crouch End HighSchool estate. A petition protestingagainst the scheme is being circulated,and it is pointed out that the closing ofthe local sub-station will mean thatsome properties, including the IsolationHospital, will be two miles from thecentral station.

•Policeman at RingsteadRingstead, Northants., with 1,000in-

habitants, is pressing for a residentpoliceman. So strong is the feelingthat a petition is to be sent to theHome Secretary ..

IT IS BETTER TO DEMANDTHAN TO PETITION

H.M.At Stationery OfficeA FEW days ago I had cause to visit the stationery shop in Kingsway. After

one of those waits which endears the establishment to all who know it, Icounted 18 customers, and there was one man to attend to the counter. His dutiesseemed to consist in answering questions at the "special enquiry" window, takingorders, walkin~ round the back of the premises, taking down bundles of stringedpapers, extractIng one paper, tying up the bundle again, returning to the counter,inserting the goods in an envelope, walking to the till at the other side of the shopwith the cash, and then handing the change to the customer. This was repeateda number of times in my presence, and noticing a customer near me obviouslyready to scream, I said rather loudly: "I don't think much of the service here."

Customer No. I then exploded with a remark about the Civil Service, andCustomer No. 2 made some remark which stung the assistant to retort "This is nota fish shop!"

Said Customer NO.3: "Fish shop! You couldn't. run a fish shop. People wantfish hot."

Customers 4 and 5 joined in.The assistant then went to the rea:r of the shop again and in a few minutes

returned with three or four more assistants.'Twas ever thus--people acting ill unison to enforce a specific and reasonable

demand can always impose their will on those authorities and institutions whosejob it is to serve them. T.H.S.

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"BACHELOR WOMEN" said cope with without undertaking the burdenan old family doctor to' me one and responsibility of nu~ing a lodger

d ". bl L' . through, perhaps a long illness.ay, constitute a pro em. Ivmg Th l' f . h falo . fl fl· I di h ere are p enty 0 nursmg omes orne in a a~ or at et, stu 10 or w at those who can afford to pay four, five or sixhave you, with ~obody to look after guineas a week. There are some where onethem If they are Ill. can go for a thorough rest if run down or just "not strong" that' I'St th 11" " . d B th lik 1 d ' 0 say, ey are weI had a case a little while ago, a young tired, ut e women. most e y to nee and healthy as long as they do about halfwoman with tonsilitis ~ho could hardly a rest, poor, hard-working women, or those the amount of work required in any kind ofspeak. There she was, lymg alone at the top who have no wor~ but ~ho have ~he wo~ry gainful occupation.of the house The landlady was kind but and nerve-destroymg anXIety of trymg to live Th' ed f th .. . ' d k ki d f ere IS no ne or em to be galD-one day she said to me suddenly 'I suppose an eep up some in 0 appearance on full I ed: th I' hi lik d hi hilli Y emp oy ere are p enty ofYOUknow doctor there will be nobody in the somet ng e a poun or t rty s ngs a tr' d th' , k h h h '1 younger, songer women to 0 e workhouse over the week-end?' wee -t ese are t e women w 0 cannot avai hi h th bli ed k

th 1 f hh wc eyareolg to mae such"So there was my patient with nobody emse ves 0 sue omes. f ti ff btai T thran c e orts to 0 tam. ru has to be

even to answer the door or take in the milk. I once knew an elderly woman, educated thrown overboard "Oh I 'td h . h b d h A . ,yes, am qu~e

She asked if she couldn't go into the has- an c. armmg, w 0 was a a eart ~ase. t strong . . . I may not look robust but Ipital, but of course she couldn't with a one :tIme. she was thought to be d~ng and am wiry ... " ,filthy septic throat. In the end I got her was admitted to a home for the dymg. AN.' 1 Divid d ld ... ' . Sh did . anona IVI en wou prevent all thisinto the m~rmary where she was put into ~ not die,. ho~~ver, but recovered cruel, unnecessary waste of life and ha i-an observation room. sufficiently to be ineligible for the home. ness It would abl . pp

& M . ' . , . en e many spmsters toAnnouncements eetlng.s. "It ~as better i~ the ?ld days when folk She had no near relatives; ther~ was no marry. I heard of a case the other day where

Blackburn Social Credi.tStudy Group me~ts e~ch lived m houses WIth maids and there were place w~ez:eshe could go. She tried 1? get a governess had been engaged to a hospitalMonday at 8 p.~. m the Y.M.C.A.,Limbrick. plenty of people about; always somebody to ? bed-SItting-room (she .had a nunute dispenser for fifteen years. He had an old

All welcome. Enquiries to Hon. Sec., 47, Whalley look after one in illness" Income). Many landladies refused her mother to t h . d dd BI kb . . suppor w 0 reqUIre expert anNew Roa, ac urn, " because she looked so III that they were . '. t All . . , I What the doctor had forgotten was that fraid f th ibili f havi h therefore, expensIve care. So they could not

Bradford United Demooras. enqumes we· those who lived in houses with maids even a aloe responSI 1 ty 0 avmg er. afford to marrycome; also helpers wanted. Apply R. J . 11 h f d h .

Northin. " Centre Street. Bradford. in the. old days were. p~ple with mo~ey. Fma y s e oun one, more umallt; or And yet, far from there being any lack ofrdiff Social Credit Association. Weekly Confer- Even m. these days It IS ~sually possible less observant than ~he rest, and. settled into the goods and services they need in order toca ence of Supervisors,Officialsand Dept. Officers for the SIck to be cared for If they can pay. a small, dark and dismally furnished room. live, enormous sums are sent in trvin to

at 34, Charles Street, on Wednesdays,at ?-IS p.m. • She could not get better. ~er only hope of induce the public to buy pmore goJIs ~ndprumpt. . more comfortable surroundmgs was to .get hire more services.

Cardiff Social Credit Association. Specialmeetmg THOUSANDS of bachelor women worse and return to the home for the dymg. .at 34 CharlesStreet on Wednesday,September of all ages who live alone in M ld t h lif b t ld We do not need so much advertisement to, '" . . . oney cou no save er 1 e, u wou 11 b 11 h .15 at 8 p.m. An Address, Alberta and the bed-sitting-rooms or flats SImply cannot afford h . h f d . hi te us, a out ate good things there are to, " C A 0 C Ch . Rev . ' ave gIven er com art an companIOns Ip. b b h WBanks. by apt. . . ooper. airman, . to be III and because they cannot be nursed ' e aug t. e need the money to buy

Colin Gibb, M.A. . at the onset of illness, are often very ill * them. Then the problem of the sick

Erdington DO.lI3la9soclalBcredltfiGld'ORIIP•dMeeDtl?s~indeed or even lose their lives when a little IN millions of cases a little money bachelor woman would disappear togetherat Parochial Rooms, room e oa . I ." .' h f h bl F hcussion on "Implicationsof Democracy." You are ordinary care at the appearance of the first would cure Illness far more WIt most 0 our ot er pro ems. or t ey

welcome.Friday, September 24, 8 prompt. Annual symptoms would have averted the calamity. quickly and effectually than much medicine. too are nearly always problems of poverty,Meeting, October 8. However kind landladies may be, they There are thousands of unattached women or near poverty, or the fear of poverty.

Liverpoo! Socia!J~re~Ur_AS&~latlon.. Enquiries to usually have quite as much as they can who without having any specific ailment, are And poverty can be abolished now.Hon. Secretary,MISS 'D. M:' ~~rttI, ,GreeD, ~ . ""', :

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INa South London school theteacher is giving a lesson on

South America.Teacher tells of destruction of

coffee in Brazil and adds "Well,I suppose there was nothing elseto do with it-I can't think ofanything else to do with lt."

Twelve-year-old girl says: "tthink they could have given it tothe poor people."

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1IIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIMR. SMITH LOVES HISTRAGEDY clings to the names of But for two months now-less the• Shanghai, Santander. It touched meagre remission the law's mercy maylast week a much more everyday name. .. allow him-Ernest Smith will not be ablethe name of Smith. to get a job, to make a home.

The story of Ernest Spencer Smith and He is in jail.Mrs. Smith, mother of the six little onesfor whom, through two black, bitter daysand nights, they could not find shelter, lAM going to ask you to do somethingwas the most poignantly tragic story of for this -man with the ordinary name,last week. . this man you have never met.

The agony of Shanghai wi~ mak~ his- It may mean climbing out of yourtory. The agony of the Snuths WIll be favourite armchair. But-some time thisforgc:>t~en.. Sunday-rummage in the kitchen, in that

Millions who read It have forgotten cupboard under the stairs, in that odd ..already. Perhaps you, too, have forgotten. corner, try to find last Wednesday's morn- ~e was ~emg punished, the woman wasAfter all, you have had four days of home ing paper. And read again _ carefully ~ng pU~llshed, because there were sixcomforts since the story was told in with your heart open-the sorrowful sag~ children instead of one or none. TheyWealdstone, Middlesex, Court. But for. of the homeless Smiths. h~d to bear the knowl~dge, a keener painthose four days Ernest Spencer Smith has Th hi If ha t ld it bett th WIth every hopeless mile and every shut. . . e man rmse SOl er an d h th hild haribeen In pnson. So let me remind you. I could hope to tell ft H h t Id ft ~r, t at e c. ren were s ng the

_, . 1. e as 0 1 snng of the seanng lashs * bleakly, starkly .... Bitten into his . _S LAST Tuesday, Smith, a man of 40, was. .'0 * ~

sent to two months' hard labour mllllll111r.oyllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll111111111111111111: THE S iths h I f ==. = = nu were ome ess or SOIIle- ==His offence was stealing, as bailee, a car ~ Pet erR 0 S S ~ thing that, even under the tyrannyvalued at £8. . ~ ~ of Italy, of Germany, would have brought

He had sold the car, .he said, ':<> get :ii""II""""""""""II"""""II"""""""""I"I"""II"III""""IIi: tax remission, the compliments of themoney to .find Mrs. Smith, who, It w~ memory with the acid of unshed tears is State.alle~ed, dIs~ppea:ed after, In despair, a tale that Dickens could only have In a hopeless world this unknownleaving the SIXchildren on a ~re~ext ~t a embroidered... woman had bidden six new fighters intostranger's house. Ernest Smith s cnme. . h nk b tl f d

h. ed If h h d itted The Smiths were turned out of their t e ra s--to at e orwar , as they grew -

was not. IS trag y. e a commi h . I' . . t th fai f B" f -hi I

. h be easi ome at rune o'c ock In the morrung. up, In 0 e airer, reer ritain 0 '10-a greater one s ot nug t e easier. (H . ed h . h . '<1"_ d I beli - tha B' .

S. h d'd' t b t b b f f ave you notic ow restive, ow weary- morrow. r-ou an eve m t ritam.

nut 1 no ea a a y 0 a ew . hild b I' .k ld ag 1 about the head did mg to grown-ups c 1 ren can e ear y m It IS the sole excuse for your politics and~'; :otth~~~ a ~Yonge into a tiny throat the day?) They be~an a long search for mine, whatever. they mar be. It is a visionbecause the babl had dared to cry. A oth~ accommodation, They soon worth the beanng of children ...brute who did. these things not so long realised that they were brandied. Rashly, perhaps, Mrs. Smith believed it.ago got off with only one month in jail. "~o chil~re~," was the reply that met Th~e was one thing, I fancy, ~he did not

Smith loves his family of six, loves and their applications everywhere. There believe, . Often, perhaps, she said casually,seeks his woman. He told the Court, in could be no argument-the faces of the "After all, no one can go homeless ina statement made in Brixton Prison: children, their weary, thin wailing as the England now."

"My wife loves the children. If I can hours went by, were a "Close, Sesame!" You and I have said it, too, casually,_ get her a home and her children back at door after door. as we say, "No one can starve." The= she will come back to us. Once a Child found rest with His saga of the Smiths forbids us to say it

"Gentlemen, I am pleading to you for Mother in a manger. again.your mercy . . . I will get a job if. only . N a on~ had even a manger for ~he s~x It ~ not m~e histo~ ... but it can =with pick and shovel, and pay the MIddle- Iittle Smiths, They spent half a rught m make ItS mark m our nunds, the mark of ~sex Council for looking after the children the open, the other half in an empty some determination, some resolve towards suntil I can get a home for them." house. It is a pity a policeman did not making these things impossible.

= This very human little true story was first p11:blished in poignantly one of the terrors of poverty in the midst of ==S the "Sunday Referee" on August 29, and 'we pr111t it here, plenty. Could this miserable story be told if Smith had his S§ by kind permission of the Editor, because it illustrates so National Dividend? And it is no use just being sorry. §=.~ " =~IIIIIIII"IIIIIIIIIIIIIII""IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHI111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111I111111111II11I11I1Il1ll1ll~

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find them in that empty house. Then thelaw might have been very gracious, toSmith, even set him free-to go on withhis weary wandering . . .

Read the, story again. Do not 'let usworry about what was said of Smith'spast, when the pitiful court story wasunfolded. For the past, he had paid.

But the punishment he suffered in thatfruitless trek for the shelter that eludedhim had the galling bitterness of punish-ment without even the ice-cold logic ofthe law behind it.

Maggots At Newport PagnellttNOT A NUISANCE" I

UNDER THE HEALTH ACT For NEWHAVE you ever had maggots crawling under your door in the morning READERS-·

and had to sweep them up as part of your normal household duties? Rea" about 8011al endlt a"d t....This is what inhabitants of one part of Newport Pagnell have to put uI?with. .11 how much more Int..... tl... , ...

For years the ratepayers have been complaining of the horrible stench that IS often ~p~er bliOIMIs:a.u. CuDprevalent in a densely populated part of the town. The air is polluted for some way By ee;T rockling ~. 4d.round this particular neighbourhood, and it is &0 bad. that it makes people sick and ill. DEBT AND fAXATION. By L. D.No one can eat, sleep or live comfortably in such a smell. Hundreds of yards away' Byrne ~d.windows and doors have to be kept tighrly closed to minimise this foul. stench. WpHY P<?,VBERTY

hIND MIfDeaSTt OF

th th cis f th li bo . th LENTY< Y t e ean 0 n er-And then there are e maggots, ousan 0 em, craw ng a ut In e streets. bury.... 4d.They are on view nearly every morning. WOMEN AND POVERTY. By Jean

Urban Councillor Bullard is vigorously representing the people in this neighbourhood Campbell Willett r: 4d.

in their fight to rid themselves of. this nuisance. A petition ~i~ed by scores of people, AC.RO~~H o!',~g~~: .. ~:. ..~~!.~~3d.many saying that they had been III as a result of these conditions, was presented to the ARMAGEDDON. By Jactes ~~d.Urban District Council, but nothing has been done.· SANITY OF SocIAL CREDIT. By-------...;.------------------------------1 After one complaint the Medical Officer Maurice Colbourne 6d.

f H 1 h " d th . d th WHAT's WRONG WITH THE WORLD?0, :a t. visne e prem.Ises, an e By G. W. L. Day 18.following is an extract from hIS report; THE USE OF MONEY. By Major

"Although considerable annoyance is C. H. Douglas 6d.caused during the hot weather from effluvia THE ECONOMIC CRISIS. Southamp-

. . . ton Chamber of Commerceand flies, I am nevertheless of opmlOn that Re ort 6d .. . . are using the best practical means for THY ~ILL BE DONE. By J. Creaghpreventing or counteracting the annoyance Scott. With a foreword by thethat must necessarily arise from an offensive Dean of Canterbury 3d.

d I . f h f .. THE FEAR OF LEISURE. By A. R.tra e. n VIew 0 t ese acts It IS not pos- Orage 6d.sible to give a certificate under Section 114 MONEY AND THE PRICE SYSTEM. Byof Public Health Act, 1825. Nor do the Major C. H. Douglas 3d.premises constitute a nuisance under Section ECONOMICS FOR EVERYBODY. By

91 of that Act." T~~e~~:: ~~·W~ .:By..G:·W:·L. 3d•

It is, of course, more polite to say "effluvia" Day IS.

than "smell," but when the smell is of the How TO GET WHAT You WANT.

order of a stench it doesn't convey at all the ~~w3iW .• ~ .• ~~.: .. ~~~...~ .• ~. sd.same thing .. T~e quotation of the Public Six Propaganda FoldersIHealth Act IS Irrelevant, as also are the WASTE' THE CHOSEN FAST OFMedical Officer's opinions. He is talking Gon; FEEDING RAVENS; A FAMILYabout methods, which do not concern the NEEDS MONEY; FOREIGN TRADE;ratepayers. They only know that they want WASTED LrvES (4 of each IS.) I

th· d d th thei 1 1 (each) ~d.e nuisance stoppe , an at eir ocaauthority must find a way of stopping it. Ifthey were pressed for a reason they mightadd that, notwithstanding the MedicalOfficer's report, flies have been found to beassociated with diarrhoea, dysentery, typhoid,cholera, diphtheria, ophthalmia, tuberculosis,anthrax, and smallpox; and that each maggotturns into a fly. When they crawl underdoors in numbers, rr;taggots are, in fact, anuisance, Act or no Act.. . ;....

It's the RESULTS theywantBut this' does not alter the"'RESULTS that

the people want-that the maggots and thesmell be stopped-and they should keep theseclearly before the, Council, at the same timepointing out that they are not asking afavour but requesting as a right that ·theCouncil should obtain. these results as partof its duty. The members are elected bythe people and so derive authority from thepeople for the purpose of carrying out thewishes of the majority when these are clearlyexpressed. Councillor Bullard appears torealise this; he is energetically doing his best.The remaining Councillors should under-stand that if one, set of representatives failto represent the people adequately in obtain-ing their will, it is time to try another set.

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~Local Objectives----CAMPAIGN TOUR

The Director and Mr. GeorgeHickling will address the followingmeetings during September:-18, Bradford, 8 p.m, Driver's Cafe, Kirk-

gate (Public meeting. SubJect: "ActionIn Alberta-and In England").

19, Bradford, 6.30 p.m. Same address.20, Stockton-on-Tees, 7.30 p.m. Morgan's

Cafe, High St.21, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 8 p.m, Belgravla

Hall, Nelson St. (near Grey's Monu-ment).

1l,Glasgow,7.30 p.m. Religious Institution, Rooms, 200 Buchanan St. -

24, Coleraine, 7.30 p.m. Cafe Hall.lS, Belfast, 7.30 p.m. Social Credit

Hall, 12 Ann St.Social Crediters and anyone interested

in encouraging the public to exert theirauthority over their institutions areinvited to attend.

An Unhappy PrecedentMR. MACKENZIE KING'S DILEMMA

MR. MACKENZIE KING, the Canadian Premier, must be wondering today whether,when pressed by financial interests to disallow Albertan legislation, he would not

have been wiser to defy them, rather than defy every democrat in Canada, which, ineffect, was what he did. His action, if democracy means anything in Canada, will leadto his political extinction.

Maybe defiance of the financial interests would have led to a temporary loss of thepremiership, but if it had he would have been the hero of every real democrat and thuscertain of eventual return. As it is, he has mack himself an object of contempt. Notonly has he failed to carry out his election pledge to restore control of financial policy tothe people, he has deliberately endeavoured to thwart action to achieve this end takenby the Albertan Legislature, by his disallowance of their Acts.

Mr. Mackenzie King has taken the broad road leading to political perdition. Latestreports seem to show that he will have a ro ugh ride.

* **The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation is now calling upon Mr. King to use the

powers of disallowance he claims for the Federal Government, to veto what is known as,the "Padlock" Act passed some months ago by the Provincial Government of Quebec. Thispiece of fascistic legislation empowers the police to shut any building, including privatedwellings, used for "communist propaganda," a phrase which is not defined, and cantherefore be used to apply to any activities objectionable to the government. The Acthas been cohdemned by the Canadian Bar Association for its "arbitrary powers," and inother quarters for its 'vague and confused wording. Further, although it does not denyany aggrieved person access to the Courts in fact, it does so in effect. . .

The C.C.F. claims that everyone .of the reasons advanced by Premier MackenzieKing for disallowing the Albertan Acts applies with at least equal force to this "Padlock" .Act. .

It is pointed out that when the parliamentary leader of the C.C.F. at Ottawa pressedthe Attorney-General to disallow the Quebec Act, he promised "serious consideration,"

, but added, "1. do not think that in a federation such as this the power of disallowancecould be exercised by the central government."

In the circumstances the majority of people will agree with the conclusion. of theC.C.F. statement;

"When it is a question of the civil liberties of ordinary citizens in Quebec, theDominion Government promised to give 'serious consideration' to a proposal of a refer-ence to the Supreme Court and then did nothing; and it professed to believe that thepower of disallowance had become obsolete. When it is a matter of the civil liberties ofbankers in Alberta, the Dominion Government spontaneously and almost instantly pro-poses a reference to the Supreme Court, and when that is rejected, promptly disallowsnot one but three acts! It is difficult to resist the conclusion that it all depends whoseox is gored."

* **Mr. Mackenzie King is now faced with the choice of disallowing the Quebec Act or,by failing to do so, proving the truth of this statement. It is a choice of evils, for eitheraction or inaction must further discredit him in the eyes of an awakening public. Dis-allowance now will show him yielding to pressure from the C.C.F.; further" it willintensify the -growing feeling in Quebec government circles against federal interference.Failure to act, on the other hand, will be attributed by many to fear of a provincialgovernment, which turned out a corrupt Liberal administration at the last provincialelection-and Mr. King is a Liberal. ,

The least that those financial dictators can do, who forced Mr.. King to act in thecase of Alberta, is to help him out of the troubles they have brought on him. Whetherthey will go to his rescue or not depends on whether they have any further use for him.Mr. R. B. Bennett, late Conservative premier, is reported to be acnve in support of theso-called People's League of Alberta-for "People's" read "Bankers'" (see SOCIALCREDITfor August 27). Maybe he is now due for the limelight!

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WE WI LL ABOLISH POVERTYBelow is the form Parliamentary electors are being asked to sign. Please read it carefully,

sign (if you have not done so already) tI1Id send it to United Democrats, 163Ao Strand, London,W.C.2. Will you volunteer to help in the Campaign? '

ELECTOR'S DEMAND AND UNDERTAKINGI. I know that there are goods in plenty and therefore that poverty is quite unnecessary.2. I want, before anything else, poverty abolished.3. I demand, too, that monetary or other effective claims to such products as we now destroy or

restrict shall be distributed to me and every .Briton so that we can enjoy all we wantof them.

4. These distributions must not deprive owners of their property nor decrease its relativevalue, nor increase taxes or prices. '

S. In a democracy like Great Britain Parliament exists to make the will of tbe people prevail.6. So 1 pledge myself to vote if I can for a candidate who will undertake to support this my policy,

and to vote consistently against any party trying to put any other law making beforethis.

If the present Member of Parliament bere won't undertake this, I will vote to defeat himand his successors until this, my policy, prevails.~ 7··••· ·: Signed

••5 Address _ .: (Signatures will be treated confidentially.) ,·••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• - » .

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SOCIAL CREDIT, September 17, 1937

Leanet.1"ASK AND IT SHALL BE GIVEN

You" (2S. per 100) ~d.WAR (2S. 3d. per 100) ~d.WHY PAY TAXES? ~d.

(25. 3d. per 1(0)TYRANNY. By C. H. Douglas .... ~d.

Obtainable (postage extra) from

SOCIAL CREDIT163AStrand. London. W.C.2

Where IgnoranceIs Bliss. .A NEW recruit to the C.10. (Committee

for Industrial Organisation) was over-heard in Youngstown, Ohio, to say, "I've justjoined the C ten. I'm for the closed shop,it's darned cold in the winter in an openshop."

It is worth noting, as the laughter diesdown, that he has not much education, buthe does know what he wants. There areways he could get it, but not that way.

SOCIAL CREDIT

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